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Quotes about Argument


Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Rufus Choate

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

Nathaniel Emmons

Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

Roger Bacon

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

Giovani Della Casa

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

Daniel Dennett

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

Robert Benchley

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Larry Adler

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than by the arguments of its opponents.

Source Unknown

"For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Janet Frame

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Salman Rushdie

A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.

Clifford Irving

The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.

Peter Brimelow

Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt

...the argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.

F.a. Hayek

The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.

Peter Brimelow

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

James Robinson

Rhetoric is nothing, but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

Jan Zamoiski

Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.

Charles Simmons

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

Rufus Choate

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

Edgar Watson Howe

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Richard Flecknoe

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Che Guevara

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